Regulation & Compliance
Insurers Could Spend $20B to Implement New International Financial Reporting Standard: WTW Survey
Global insurers face a hefty price tag to implement a new international financial reporting standard, according to a new Willis Towers Watson survey. The global insurance industry will spend between ...
Federal Lawmakers Probing CNA Ransom, Cyber Insurance Payouts
Late last week, federal lawmakers requested information from Chicago-based insurer CNA about a March 21 cyber attack on the company and about a reported $40 million ransom CNA paid to end the ...
Plaintiffs Dig to Unearth Old ISO Documents to Back COVID BI Claims
Plaintiffs attorneys are looking deep into the weeds for evidence to support claims for business income lost because of COVID-19 public safety orders. Lawyers for footwear wholesaler Marc Fisher LLC ...
Florida’s Latest Property Insurance Reform: Too Little, Too Late?
A bill passed by the Florida Legislature to address the state's property insurance crisis has created optimism among some stakeholders, while others say it will not reduce rates over the next 18 to ...
Is Loop the Future of Automobile Insurance?
The annual ATECH Conference in Aruba is promoted as, "Where Tech, Innovation, and Creativity Meet to Become the Future." At the 2015 conference, two young tech entrepreneurs, Carey Anne Nadeau and ...
Carriers Struggle to Transform Innovation Efforts Into Results: AM Best
Although COVID-19 forced many insurers to seek out innovative solutions, most companies still have room for improvement, according to rating agency AM Best. In a recent analysis of innovation ...
Reinstated: Actuarial Ratemaking Principles Are Back!
Less than a month ago, the prospect that long-held principles of actuarial ratemaking would survive an action by the Casualty Actuarial Society board of directors to rescind them late last year ...
One Year In: How Insurers Are Doing on AM Best Innovation Assessments
In early March 2020, AM Best released Scoring and Assessing Innovation, our formalized criteria for measuring a company's innovativeness. Within weeks of its official launch, this methodology was put ...